A mile west of the 1838 Battle Creek Massacre Site stood Liberty Hill, an Anglo-American community established in the following decade. Samuel and Prudence (Matthews) Wright, from Maury County, Tenn., settled there in 1849 and were relatives of Dr. George W. Hill, an Indian agent and trading post operator at Spring Hill, half a day's wagon ride away. The Wrights acquired land and attracted pioneer neighbors, and in 1860 members of the Fullerton, Garner, McCandless, Moore, Richey, Slaughter, Wright, and Younger families organized Liberty Hill Cumberland Presbyterian Church on a site donated by Wright. After the Civil War (1861-65), in which men of the community served, another influx of settlers arrived, including the M.A. Wilkes family, who were also related to the Wrights, and the settlement prospered. Wright later gave land in 1876 for the cemetery and in 1884 for public school uses. Population then shifted away as Dawson and Hubbard, shipping points on the Cotton Belt Railroad, drew people from the Liberty Hill area; the school was removed in 1917, the church dissolved in 1929, and land once farmed intensively reverted to grazing.